Rosemary Goring: Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen
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Жанр : Penguin Group
Издательство : Penguin Group
Год издания : 2008
Аннотация:
A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone and Billy Connolly. These include key historic moments — ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007 — along with a vast array of wonderfully readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia. This is living, accesible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, house-wives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, novelists, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen and many more.